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Senior soil scientist at the French Research Institute for the Development (IRD, www.ird.fr). Authors and co-authors of more than two hundred communications, book chapters and scientific papers (see www.researchgate.net/profile/Martial_Bernoux). His researches focus on the integrated analysis of greenhouse gas emissions and soil carbon sequestration in the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land-Use (AFOLU) sector at field, farm, landscape, regional or national scales, mainly under wet and dry tropical, subtropical and Mediterranean conditions. Founding member of the Francophone African network “Soil Carbon for a Sustainable agriculture in Africa” (CASA, reseau-carbone-sol-afrique.org/en). Nominated expert serving several French and international scientific committees and notably the Science Policy-Interface of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). Beyond his traditional research activities, he also participated with FAO, the Global Soil Partnership (GSP), the UNFCCC, the IPCC, the World Bank, the UNEP, the GEF, the ISO committee and The Climate Bonds Initiative in activities related to international conventions and efforts related to soil, agriculture, climate change, GHG emissions, land degradation and the environment. Since 2009, as an FAO consultant he has taken part in the development of the EX-Ante Carbon-balance Tool (EX-ACT, www.fao.org/tc/exact/ex-act-home/en/) to estimate the mitigation impact of agriculture, forestry and fishery development projects for helping in the promotion of climate smart agriculture and policies and projects. Since end of October 2015 is leading the Project "Mitigating Agriculture GHG Emissions" under the MICCA programme at FAO (http://www.fao.org/climatechange/micca/en/).